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Why Has Equality Created Such Division?

You’ve likely heard the saying, “The battle between the sexes.” I don’t hear it as much as I did when the push for equal rights for women was in its early decades, but I have been reflecting more and more these days on how equality movements seem to have have led to ever increasing division rather than ever increasing harmony.

The formal term for this is “identity politics” and it can be seen in so many of the issues humanity is struggling with most today.

If the current direction is leading to increasing problems, it only seems wise that everyone involved take another look at if what we are doing is really creating the intended outcome and if not, start asking if perhaps there is a better path?

The dirty big secret is that participation awards are for losers. Hence, why there is a silver and bronze medal in the Olympics so losers can feel better than other losers who didn’t medal at all. It’s lonely at the top for a reason.

The American left’s obsession with identity politics, and refusal to engage with the concerns of ordinary Americans lost them the election, according to a British peer and polling expert.

Lord Ashcroft, a major political donor who funds extensive polling in the UK, delivered a withering assessment on his blog, saying the Democrats’ reaction to losing shows they are locked in a cycle of defeat.

Writing on his blog yesterday, Ashcroft wrote:

The Democrats thought everyone shared their assumptions. Having decided that no decent person could vote for Donald Trump – a candidate backed by a “basket of deplorables” – they seemed to argue that people had a moral responsibility to keep him out of office, irrespective of any other consideration: “our children are watching”, as her ads relentlessly reminded the TV audience.

But other things that were closer to home mattered more to people than Donald Trump’s flaws, and Donald Trump was talking about them – albeit in crude terms, and in even cruder terms about things they often wished he wouldn’t talk about at all.

Yet when they looked over the fence to see what was on the left-liberal agenda, what did they hear? Gender-neutral pronouns, safe spaces, transgender bathroom rights – the burgeoning agenda of identity politics that many ordinary voters feel is widening and entrenching division – and what someone in one of my focus groups of African-American voters called the “rich white person problem” of climate change.